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This is a nadir for the internet as (my) republic of letters. The RSS feeds I still diligently follow have been a shadow of what they once were for years. Now, Twitter is declining, a rapid-fire recapitulation of what happened to my RSS, except on Twitter the reduction that remains is a darker and more poisonous than the ghosts of all those blogs. This, Mastodon, is a point of light, but not yet bright enough to compensate for what has been lost. Hopefully it continues to brighten.
@interfluidity honestly kind of excited - seemed like to me that twitter absorbed all the energy that used to go into blogs, but made us worse for it
@phillmv i think that’s right, compared to the quality of conversation we used to have through blogs. but it was better than nothing (and did have some novel virtues, especially with respect to serendipity and diversity). maybe this nascent brave new world will prove much better! i hope so.